Ecumenical Patriarch Pertinax

Ecumenical Patriarch Pertinax (130-187) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 169 to 187, succeeding Ecumenial Patriarch Alypios and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Olympianos.

Biography
Pertinax was born in 130, and he became the Bishop of the See of Byzantium in 169 after serving as a senior officer of the Roman Empire in Thrace and converting to Christianity after Ecumenical Patriarch Alypios convinced him that a solution to his disease would be conversion. Pertinax succeeded Alypios as the patriarch of Constantinople, and he reigned until 187.